Improvement in saddlers  trimming-tools



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PETEHS; FHOTO-U-THOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MILTON M. SULGROVE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, IND., ASSIGNOR OFONELTHIRD HIS RIGHT TO WILLIAM K. SPROUL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT I SADDLERS TRIM-MI-NG-TOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [92,845, dated July 10, 1877; application iiled April 14,1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON M. SULGRovE, residing in Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain Saddlers Trimming-Tool, of which the following 1 round and smooth, the tug being inverted and drawn through a second time to complete the rounding of the four edges.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a top View, Fig. 2 afront view or elevation, and Fig. 3 an end view, of the device embodying my invention.

A is the bedplate, to which all the other parts are fixed; B B', the guides- B being fixed, B' adjustable; U C, springs fixed to the guides, and in thev ends of which a roller, D, is hung, as shown; E, the curved knives attached to the guides B B'.

The pressure-roller holds the tug firmly down upon the bed-plate as it is drawn through.

It is contemplated, by means of a spring ar-` ranged to bear against movable guide B', as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. ll, to trim tapering straps of leather as well as those with parallel sides.

The device is readily adjustable to any de sired width.

I claim as my invention- In a machine for trimming and rounding the edges of leather straps, the curved knives E E, the fixed guide B, and movable guide B', in combination with the pressure-roller D and springs O O, to which the roller is attached, all arranged and operating substantially as shown and set forth.

MILTON M. sULGEovE.

Witnesses: t

0. F. MAYEEW, DAVID RosENBAUM. 

